title: [Viral contamination of polio vaccines in context of antivaccination mythology].
abstract: Analysis of publications about real and suggested contamination of polio vaccines produced in 1950s and 1960s with simian viruses--SV40 and SIV--is performed. Factual data are discussed and antivaccination fictions about calamitous consequences of really occurred contamination with SV40 and concocted contamination with SIV are refuted.
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Mats
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Kuz'mina
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Cheprasova
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004340:Drug Contamination; D006801:Humans; D032541:Mass Vaccination / Q000009:adverse effects; D023321:Poliovirus Vaccines / Q000009:adverse effects*; D027601:Polyomavirus Infections / Q000821:virology; D013539:Simian virus 40 / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000821:virology
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral; D023321:Poliovirus Vaccines